On Crawford Rye. 



equal quality with the thirty grains enclosed, with the 

 head in the tube, which you will with this receive. I do 

 not wish you to open the tube, until you have a meeting 

 of your board, that you may fairly compare my grain with 

 the recently imported. 



You will not only admire this gigantic head, but you 

 will observe that the stalk is solid. If this stalk will re- 

 sist the fly, we have then obtained a most valuable grain, 

 which will enable us to arrange our seeding to more ad- 

 vantage. Formerly we begun to seed our wheat on the 

 20th August; and now. never before the 3d or 4th of 

 October ; of course, we all have our wheat badly put 

 in. Virginia and Maryland claim all improvements in 

 the variety of winter grain, and if this rye has any merit, 

 we shall find it out, and we will leave the carrots and 

 beets to you. 



But what would be a little beyond these last articles 

 would be your giving encouragement to the bean seed, 

 from which is extracted the most delicious oil, and with 

 the advantage that it never becomes rancid, and improves 

 with age, differing in this respect from all other oils. It 

 o-rovvs to most advantage on poor sandy soils, such as the 

 coast lands of Jersey, and the sands of Sussex and So- 

 merset, and Worcester. If you could form a patriotic 

 company, to erect a mill for the purpose, distribute seed, 

 and purchase at two dollars a bushel all which might be 

 offtred, Philadelphia might supply the United States with 

 this admirable oil, and the owners would soon find it a 

 profitable business. Seed can be obtained from Georgia, 

 from which I procured hulf a gallon, the want of a mar- 

 ket, stopped the business. I mean now to reproach you 

 for not thinking of me, when your society obtains sam- 

 ples of seeds. I devote myself to agriculture, and will 

 make fair experiments. 



I am, your obedient humble servant. 



T. M. Foreman. 



